Is your local mirror on a ReiserFS partition? If so, hd.img won't see it.
There's an hdreiser.img to use instead. Haven't tried it myself though...
On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > I have the local mirror updated on my computer thanks to Ron's great
> > little script... After a dd if=hd.img of=/dev/fd0 and a reboot with said
> > floopy the installation started up fine with one exception... On the
> > screen to choose the location of the local hd.img I was given only two
> > partitions to choose from, hda1 and hda5, which are both Fat32
> > partitions. My hd.img resides on hdb in hdb8. Has anyone else had a
> > problem like this and perhaps I just missed it in a previous email? I've
> > tried the latest 7.2beta and cooker trees with the same result.
> >
> >
> > Tim McKenzie
> > Appalachian State University
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> I also have this problems
> Now you (@ Mandrake) know that I'm saying true ;-)